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| Commissioner for Environment, Kwara State, Mrs BURAIMOH in a radio interactive programme at Sobi Fm Ilorin. |
The Kwara State Government has restated its commitment towards ensuring that the people of the state embrace personal hygiene in their surroundings, in order to have disease-free environment.
The Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Abosede Olaitan Buraimoh stated this today during a radio interactive programme at Sobi fm station in Ilorin.
She said the state government has tried its best to curb the menace of dirty environment, urging residents of the State to play their part in the cleanliness of their surroundings for the betterment of the people.
The Commissioner explained that it has been a regular rule that people should stop dumping refuse on the road medians, road sides and in drainages, to avert the outbreak of diseases and imbibe hygienic ways of disposing their waste properly into the rorobins, or wait to be dumped in waste compactors plying their route.
Buraimoh urged closed street houses, business and office owners to patronize the commercial waste contractors for just a meagre amount of money to dispose their wastes.
She frowned at the ungodly attitude of some residents of the state capital, who dumped their wastes on road medians, road sides and even in drainages.
"The Kwara State Government will not condone any act of dirtiness within the state and its environs and anyone caught will be severely sanctioned according to environmental laws"
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This has also prompted the government to constitute the taskforce body to deal with enforcement so that any one caught will be punished", the Commissioner said.
She, however, lauded the administration of Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for taking proactive measures to intensify sensitization programmes on environmental challenges to avoid disaster.
Also speaking, the Director of Forestry, Alhaji Idris Babatunde Mahmud emphasized on the importance of forest as it combats climate change, clean the air, provides oxygen, prevents water pollution, and provides economic opportunities, among others.
He said the International Forest Day marked on 21st of March annually which will be commemorated soon in the State, for the people to know the importance of trees in the environment and demoralize the process of deforestation and embrace the afore stated.